This website is highly recommended by all my friends if you have problems writing care plans. It is actually a care plan generator, all you do is pick what applies to your patient and out pops a complete care plan. I would like to stress DONT RELY to heavily on this website because in my own personal exp. you may have to write a care plan whenever and wherever you instructor see's fit. Make sure you know how to become a generator yourself before using this. :)
If you need a nursing journal article, heres your place. It cost money for most of the articles but some are free. In my exp using it I was always able to find a free article for just about any topic I needed. Make sure if it says it cost money for a article to click on it and scroll down, because sometimes it only cost money if you print the article. Great for Nursing research papers. :)
These are a few links I have for pathophys. Not sure they're going to be all that good for you. I also have a copy of Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children by Kathryn L. McCance and Sue E. Heuther here at home that I use for reference...
You are my new best friend! Thanks so much for sharing these awesome sites!
Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
here are links to the 75 nursing diagnoses that are currently in the elsevier care plan constructor companion website for nursing diagnosis handbook: a guide to planning care, 7th edition, by betty j. ackley and gail b. ladwig. each of these pages contains the nanda definition, outcomes, nursing interventions and references. there are currently 188 nanda-i officially approved nursing diagnoses (per nanda-i nursing diagnoses: definitions & classification 2007-2008 published by nanda international, page ix), so this list is hardly inclusive. however, it does contain the nursing diagnoses most commonly used in the medical/surgical areas of the acute hospitals and in nursing homes.
Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
here is a link to the page that contains links to the 42 nursing diagnoses that are currently in the elsevier care plan constructor companion website for nursing care plans: nursing diagnosis and intervention, 6th edition, by meg gulanick and judith l. myers. each of these pages contains the nanda definition, outcomes, and nursing interventions.
the care plan book that I use is sparks and taylors nursing diagnosis reference manual ISBN: 1-58255-292-4 if have found that it is the best for me. we dont use care plans at my school we use the concept mapping technique. check this book out it is really good.
http://elsevier.touchwood.net/lewis/ - this is an online concept map creator from lewis' medical-surgical nursing: assessment and management of clinical problems, an on line student help site from elsevier publishing.
there is also a book that has been published called concept mapping: a critical-thinking approach to care planning by pamela mchugh schuster that costs about $26 and has about 173 pages. this author is an instructor in a nursing school that uses concept mapping. she goes through the steps of the nursing process and how to apply concept mapping with the steps of the nursing process. there are a number of forms scattered throughout the book. it is written and aimed at student nurses. it has a separate chapter on concept mapping patients with psychosocial problems. it also includes two appendices which have the current nanda nursing diagnoses classified and sorted by (1) maslow's hierarchy of needs and (2) gordon's functional health patterns.
WOW thanks for the website. I work as a hom,e health nurse and we must write careplans for all our patients. It is probably one of the most difficult things to think of. I found the site super easy.
this is great thread!!! articles about health care is what im looking for when opening my com..its nice to have some sites in here..good luck to us all!!!
this is great thread!!! articles about health care is what im looking for when opening my com..its nice to have some sites in here..good luck to us all!!! :) :) :)
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You are my new best friend!
Thanks so much for sharing these awesome sites!